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godukerocks
04-18-2008, 05:09 PM
I was roaming around on West Campus today, and happened to run into the lacrosse team as they were boarding their buses to head to West Point. I saw coach Danowski, and after a minute decided to ask for his autograph and have some conversation with him about how great a season they're having and such. And not only did he give me his signature, he insisted that I get on the bus, proceeded to introduce me to the team, and all the players gave me an autograph and chatted with me.

Made my day. Our lacrosse team rocks.

roywhite
04-18-2008, 05:36 PM
I was roaming around on West Campus today, and happened to run into the lacrosse team as they were boarding their buses to head to West Point. I saw coach Danowski, and after a minute decided to ask for his autograph and have some conversation with him about how great a season they're having and such. And not only did he give me his signature, he insisted that I get on the bus, proceeded to introduce me to the team, and all the players gave me an autograph and chatted with me.

Made my day. Our lacrosse team rocks.

Nice story. At the risk of jinxing them (fingers crossed), I think this is the year that Duke Lacrosse wins the national championship.

DevilHorse
04-18-2008, 09:50 PM
I heard on WFAN in NY today that Duke was playing #10 Army not at West Point but at Manhasset High School in a charity game to honor a former Duke Lacrosse player Jimmy Regan who became an army ranger and fell in Iraq. The fund supports the family of other fallen army rangers.

After advertizing the game on WFAN, about an hour later, Mike Francesca announced that he bought 250 tickets (at $20 a piece) that were available on a first come first serve basis to anyone who wanted them at Manhasset High School. A magnanimous gesture on his part.

It is nice to see a positive treatment of a Duke Lacrosse situation by the people at WFAN for a change.

Here is a URL with more information.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=3352967

Larry
Devilhorse

Verga3
04-18-2008, 10:40 PM
I heard on WFAN in NY today that Duke was playing #10 Army not at West Point but at Manhasset High School in a charity game to honor a former Duke Lacrosse player Jimmy Regan who became an army ranger and fell in Iraq. The fund supports the family of other fallen army rangers.

After advertizing the game on WFAN, about an hour later, Mike Francesca announced that he bought 250 tickets (at $20 a piece) that were available on a first come first serve basis to anyone who wanted them at Manhasset High School. A magnanimous gesture on his part.

It is nice to see a positive treatment of a Duke Lacrosse situation by the people at WFAN for a change.

Here is a URL with more information.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=3352967

Larry
Devilhorse


Duke Lacrosse is as classy as it gets. What a special tribute. Army will be very good and certainly inspired, and our boys will be playing AGAIN in front of 5,000+. http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2008/04/18/MLacrosse/Blue-Devils.Face.Army.For.Charity-3335264.shtml

Incidently, since this is DBR, captain Tom Emma ('83) is from Manhasset, NY. Anyone know of his whereabouts?

Mike Corey
04-19-2008, 12:00 AM
I was roaming around on West Campus today, and happened to run into the lacrosse team as they were boarding their buses to head to West Point. I saw coach Danowski, and after a minute decided to ask for his autograph and have some conversation with him about how great a season they're having and such. And not only did he give me his signature, he insisted that I get on the bus, proceeded to introduce me to the team, and all the players gave me an autograph and chatted with me.

Made my day. Our lacrosse team rocks.

That's such a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing it with all of us.

Coach Danowski is as friendly and compassionate as they come. I consider it one of the great honors of my life to have witnessed his press conference in the minutes after Duke lost in the title game last year. He spoke with the kind of love for his team that was as rare and moving as anything modern American sport has ever produced.

Duke is fortunate to have him.

Indoor66
04-19-2008, 10:15 AM
That's such a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing it with all of us.

Coach Danowski is as friendly and compassionate as they come. I consider it one of the great honors of my life to have witnessed his press conference in the minutes after Duke lost in the title game last year. He spoke with the kind of love for his team that was as rare and moving as anything modern American sport has ever produced.

Duke is fortunate to have him.

I guess that not everything about the decisions made in March/April of "that year" have worked out poorly.

godukecom
04-19-2008, 11:20 AM
ohh that march/apris was a bad stretch...

DevilAlumna
04-19-2008, 01:57 PM
Incidently, since this is DBR, captain Tom Emma ('83) is from Manhasset, NY. Anyone know of his whereabouts?

Well, coincidently, an article of his is mentioned in this morning's thread on Student Athletes (http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8853)

His byline is: Thomas Emma, President, Power Performance, Inc., Manhasset, NY

And the googles lead us to a short bio here: http://www.powerperformance.net/abouttom.htm

Verga3
04-19-2008, 02:14 PM
Well, coincidently, an article of his is mentioned in this morning's thread on Student Athletes (http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8853)

His byline is: Thomas Emma, President, Power Performance, Inc., Manhasset, NY

And the googles lead us to a short bio here: http://www.powerperformance.net/abouttom.htm


Not a coincidence. I had not done a search earlier, but found him this morning also and posted the Student-Athlete article link you referred to. Thanks for following through to track him down. Another Duke student-athlete makes good.